Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow. Oil consumption was nearing stability on a basis that allowed for an annual increase of 10%. The 1930 increase will be abnormal and the difference upsets all plans for stability. Too much competition seems to have been at the root of many cases of overproduction. Small competitors cannot afford to restrict output, prefer to sell by price-cutting. International competition has also been a major difficulty. And mechanical improvements have upset many an industry. Chadbourne. That smart Lawyer Chadbourne realizes sugar is in the same bowl with many another industry was shown in a speech he delivered at last...
This versatile and famous Irishman, now in his sixties, came from a poor family. His early ambition to be a painter could not be fulfilled, because it would mean long study in schools and much money to support him. His family could not afford this, and Russell went to work in an accounting office. He was not able to take up painting until he was over forty years...
Thus American Woolen is ready for a new era. The old management has worked on the financial structure until it is now in a highly liquid position with over $19,000,000 in cash, will afford no worry to the new management which will specialize in intensive selling, ramming the Ram's Head forward...
...hidden. On the hubcaps the buyer may have either the name of the car or a dash of lightning. For the first time in history, one man designed the entire car. He was Walter Dorwin Teague, new to automobile designing and therefore fancy free. Their makers say 16 cylinders afford more power per pound than any other engine, make running smoother, more flexible. Cadillac has sold 2,010 of its big cars in nine months at a minimum of $5,350 each. Minerva keeps the old hand-horn for those who prefer it. Fierce-Arrow and Cord seem to favor...
Asked to compose a march for next year's International Colonial and Overseas Exposition in Paris, Bandmaster John Philip Sousa replied last week to Commissioner General of the Exposition Campbell Bascom Slemp: "It will afford me great pleasure to write a march dedicated to the French Exposition. I hope that the inspiration will come shortly, and that I may be able to have the march ready by or before May 1, 1931." To date Bandmaster Sousa has turned out 132 marches, most of them occasional...